This article first appeared in Stars and Stripes, May 9, 2014. It is republished unedited in its original form. In his spare Washington apartment, author and popular historian Andrew Carroll stood ...

There’s power in remembering the past. That’s why families, schools, colleges, and friends hold reunions teeming with more old stories than there are mosquitoes on a hot Iowa evening. Those stories ...

Reading David Bassham’s letter compelled me to respond. Republicans love rewriting history. Here’s the truth Republicans don’t like to admit: The federal budget was already on its way to balance ...

Oh, the laptop, the laptop. The infamous laptop is real. Most mainstream media outlets participated in claiming it was part of a Russian disinformation campaign. Every channel followed the scripted ...

Did Iowans choose to lose their history? Probably not. But that is what is happening in their name. With the Reynolds administration’s decision to close the State Historical Society’s longstanding ...

The “Today in history” feature on Page A2 of the June 29 LNP | LancasterOnline states: “1946: Authorities in British-ruled Palestine arrested more than 2,700 Jews in an attempt to stamp out extremists ...

A few years ago, an auction house in Boston, Massachusetts, sold a two-page letter written from Newark that was dated March 1834. The letter included a hand-drawn map of the downtown area. It is ...

When people say the Second Amendment should be abolished because it was “written for muskets,” they’re ignoring both history and logic. If we applied that reasoning across the Constitution, we’d also ...

To the editor: February is the shortest month, yet it’s the month we assign one of the year’s most important celebrations. While some think Black History Month is a time to learn about racism and ...